On Liberty Quotes

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

I would never rob your cradles to feed the dogs of war

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

All religions united with government are more or less inimical to liberty. All, separated from government, are compatible with liberty.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

The Constitution is a GLORIOUS LIBERTY DOCUMENT. Read its preamble, consider it purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? it is neither.

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics it becomes necessarily the supreme rule.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

What a perversion of the normal order of things! ... to make power the primary and central object of the social system, and Liberty but its satellite.

It's not possible in a free country to completely control the border without us losing our freedoms and liberties.

The true remedy for most evils is none other than liberty, unlimited and complete liberty, liberty in every field of human endeavor.

There's no greater service to this country than the defense of its freedom.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.

Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.

War and Authority are companions; Peace and Liberty are companions.

Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving.

It is a free market that makes monopolies impossible.

No one can be free unless he is independent. Therefore, the first active manifestations of the child's individual liberty must be so guided that through this activity he may arrive at independence.

Those who sell their liberty for security are understandable, if pitiable, creatures. Those who sell the liberty of others for wealth, power, or even a moments respite deserve only the end of a rope.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

I tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.

'All men are created equal', 'government by consent of the governed', 'give me liberty or give me death'. Well, those are not just clever words, or those are not just empty theories.

Libertarians recognize the inevitable pluralism of the modern world and for that reason assert that individual liberty is at least part of the common good.

Liberty of thinking, and of expressing our thoughts, is always fatal to priestly power, and to those pious frauds on which it is commonly founded.

Conscience is the most sacred of all property.

Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty.

Whoever prefers life to death, happiness to suffering, well-being to misery must defend without compromise private ownership in the means of production.

A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty.

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

Any politician who starts shouting election-year demagoguery about the rich and the poor should be asked, "What about the other 90 percent of the people?"

The first requisite of a sound monetary system is that it put the least possible power over the quantity or quality of money in the hands of the politicians.

A country that goes out of its way to imprison the innocent has no business preaching democracy to the world.

Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.

In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect.

In the defense of civil liberties there can be no exceptions, or there will soon be many.

The dimension of cultural equity needs to be added to the humane continuum of liberty, freedom of speech and religion, and social justice.

In relations between the rich and the strong, between the rich and the poor, between the master and the servant, it's liberty that grinds down, and the law which liberates.